French Montana entered the globe of filmmaking at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, where he premiered his touching docudrama regarding the solid bond he shows to his solitary mommy. To commemorate, the rap artist took a seat with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to review the doc, labelled For Khadija.
“Going through everything that I went through in my career, it felt like it finally made sense,” the Morocco-birthed musician exposes regarding why he made a decision to make the docudrama. “It’s a story from the beginning to the end of a chapter. It’s a chapter where my mother, sacrificed for us and then went back after 25 years. I feel like that was the closure of us coming, me struggling in the Bronx, not knowing English, being culture shocked by the whole move that we made.”
He proceeded, “One thing about the wounds, that’s where the light enters. It’s showing people that if you only work on sunny days, you’ll never reach your destination.”
He likewise opened regarding browsing an exclusive life amidst remaining in the limelight, specifically back throughout his 2013 connection with Khloe Kardashian. “I just go with my groove. I also don’t like nothing that have to do with reality TV. I don’t like nothing that have to do with anything besides my music to be publicized. When you broadcast that, it just takes away for why I’m really here.”
Watch Billboard‘s complete meeting with French Montana over.
